Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29
Educational.



eight lecture ships, in which are given
annually 3,159 lectures, to which are
attached an aggregate salary of about
$3.50 200, with attcndanccs varying
from three to fifty, and giving u total
average of twenty-eight.
The number of children under TWEEN
ty-one and over five years in the city
OF New York is estimated at $4,000.
There are 302 public and 225 private
schools, not including colleges or bust
ness schools. In private schools there
are $4,000 pupils, and the average
daily attendance in the public and cor
porate schools for the year was 1884,
$50. The total number who attended
school ut some portion of the wear was,
234,320. In the punlic schools theS
are employed 5l3 male teachers ana
1852 female teachers, a total of 4,09S.
The school buildings number 1872, of
which all but eight are buildings of
brick and stone, The value of the
land they occupy is placed at $4,426,-
$40, and of the buildings $8,916,600.
The Chinese public school in San
Francisco has now thirty-eight pupils,
although ii started a year and a half
ago with only six.
Ten per cent of the students in the
university of Zurich are women Twen-
ty-nine of them are studying medicine,
fourteen philosophy and two political
economy. There are now forty-eight
student, Of med cine in London. and in
Paris lO3. Within the last seven years
eighteen women have taken Il medical
degree in Paris.
BY the death of "a hermit named r..
Price Grccnlcaf, Of Boston, HaryarI
college viii come into possession Of
from $500. 600 to 500. 900, which he
had accumulated 10y the most miser-
able mode of llfc. 1t il said hat Mr..
Grecnlcat had a desire to be immortal
lied by Harvard; that this, in Iced was
the chief ambition OF his life. Iii. will
provides for the establishment Of schoL
ar,hips, etc, and the income Of one
half the entire bcqucat is to be used for
the maintenance of the college library.
There are now seventeen Princeton
alumni associations 10 ~yarions parts Of
the country; and the association in
New York proposes 10 organize Itself
into Il Princeton club, though not to
establish a clubhouse. The committee
appointed at the last meeting of The
tpt,-t,,- yf ,l,, ,,1l,,,,. ., ,.x In. tl,
question of forming a board OF alum
nj, chosen by the graduates to co.ope-
rate with the trustees viii meet early
in January. 1t consists of Mr.. bod,
class of 50; Mr.. Alexander. class of
go, and Mr.. Moses Taylor pym, class
of II, and will undoubtedly report in
favor of forming such a co-ope ative
board.
President McCosh, of Princeton col
loge. has written a letter suggesting a
conference of representatives of the
eastern colleges to devise some plan
for the regulation Of intercollegiate
athletic sports. He believes. as all
modern educators do, that college
sports are good and competitive games
Of value, but that the effect of the
gambling and rowdyism that have
grown around these sports must be al
together bad. DR.. McCosh believes
that the colleges acting together, might
admit of All tbc benefits Of manly nx.
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e~rcises without their attending evils.
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ilsh presbyterian chHrches Two hundred
ana forty nave temperance societies.
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